Recently, scientists released the first image of Sagittarius A*, our galaxy’s supermassive black hole. It is the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) team’s second black hole snapshot, following the release of a picture of MH7* in 2019. Dimitrios Psaltis, professor of astronomy…
The first image of Sagittarius A* took half a decade to develop. Here’s why. Last week, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) team released its second beautiful and haunting image of a black hole’s accretion disk. This time, the image captured…
Scientists have estimated the number of “small” black holes in the universe. And no surprise: It’s a lot. This number may appear impossible to calculate; after all, detecting black holes is not the easiest process. Because they are as black…
Two supermassive black holes appear to orbit each other every two years, locked in an epic cosmic waltz 9 billion light years apart. Each of the two massive bodies has a mass hundreds of millions of times that of our…
